What is this machine, and does the reproducer look right?

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Hyperion
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Re: What is this machine, and does the reproducer look right

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Well, that would explain why it's so heavy!
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Menophanes
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Re: What is this machine, and does the reproducer look right

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There is always something to learn on this board. For fifty years or more I have believed that neither copper nor aluminium diaphragms were ever used commercially on the sound-boxes of disc machines (other than those of Edison) until the Victor/H.M.V. No. 5 series appeared in the late 1920s; and yet here, if I have understood rightly, we are discussing a Columbia machine of about 1915 which was fitted with such a diaphragm from new. Is this correct? Is it common to find metal diaphragms as original equipment on pre-1929 boxes?

Oliver Mundy.
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If I am not mistaken, some BusyBee (or Aretino?) front mount machines also had a metal diaphragm before 1910. I believe they were painted in bright color matching the horn.

Andreas
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